I appeciate that the Devs want to keep a tight reign on their game, but today I downloaded another 15 tracks for GTR2, some real, some fictional, to go along the excellent 'Ring that I already have for that game. Other games have similar situations. There are people who create tracks for free, just because they love doing it.
Why can't the devs let a small number of people come up with high quality tracks (that perhaps even resemble some real life counterpart) and then vet them. If they are good enough, they can be incorporated in to the game by the devs. If they are not good enough, the devs don't include it. As long as the devs control what goes in, and the tracks are deemed to be royalty free by their creators... where is the harm?
Lets face it, nobody is going to to make a million bucks by selling this software, especially if it starts to lag further behind it's cometitors in the quantity and quality of its cars, tracks and graphics. Let it have an injection of new life until the S2 final comes out.
That way, the devs can hopefully work on that awful AI!
Ian